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Midterm 2
Lecture notes and terms UIUC arch101
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
11/12/2012

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What is Maya Lin famous for?

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Vietnam Memorial

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What did Maya Lin want to the memorial to represent?

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Emotions-representaition of greivence and a place for people to mourn

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How did Prof. Worn define design?

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Design is an argument 

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What is a manifesto?

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A written statement declaring intentions motives and views on a subject

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What are three current design discourses?

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Morphogenesis-material efficiency, evidence-calculated research, organic-nature

 

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In organic design, how is nature applied to architecture?

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Using logarithms that replicate patterns or structures found in nature

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How did Evidence Based Design originate?

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Evidence based medicine 

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Paradigm   

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A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline 
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Morphogenesis   
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Architectural definition: material performance over appearance, and on processs over representation

Challenge the hegemony of top-down processes of form making and replace it with bottom-up logic of form finding 

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What is the structural design process?

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1.     Arch design

2.     Establish span and length

3.     Determine loads

4.     Analyze structure

5.     Design structural members

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What loads are taken into account when calculating structural strength for buildings?

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Live load, dead load, wind load, seismic load

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What are the most common construction materials for structure?

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Steel, reinforced concrete, wood

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What is the most important considerations when selecting materials for construction?

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Structure type and availability of materials in location

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What are two types of Structural Systems?

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Gravity and lateral load resisting system 

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Types of lateral bracing… 

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Chevron, knee, k, x-bracing, sheer wall, concrete core 

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What is a portfolio?

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Collection of school and personal work

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When is a portfolio used?

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Interviews, graduate school, scholarships etc.

 

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What is a resume used for?

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To obtain an interview, scholarship, school 

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When was BLDD started?

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1929
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Where are BLDD offices located?

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Bloomington, Decatur, Champaign, Chicago, Davenport

 

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BLDD office is organized into design groups, what are they?

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Higher ed, pre-k. senior, health, fitness, sustainable, interiors and religious facilities 

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Over 75% of BLDD staff are LEED APs, What is a LEED AP?

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Leadership in energy and environmental design- Accredited professional 

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What is the process through which BLDD gets work?

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Business development>Marketing>Request Proposal>interview>award     

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What are some projects designed by BLDD?

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Alumni center, garden hills elementary, St. Columbia church

 

 

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What new material made the Pantheon in Rome possible?

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Concrete 

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What did that material allowed to do that was not possible to do before?

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Pour coffered dome over that size 

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What did curvature in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Didyma aimed to convey?

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Sense of life through expression of tension in the building 

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How did the builders communicate when building the Sanctuary of Apollo in Didyma?

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Carving plan of building on the wall   

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How much total energy do buildings consume?

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40% -largest consumer

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What are some renewable energy sources?

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Wind, solar, hydroelectric

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What are some ways to make a building more energy efficient through design?

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Windows-insulation

Building orientation-southward windows

Solar energy-passive heat in winter, shade in summer

Daylighting-reduce need for electricity          

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What is the goal of good design in terms of energy conservation?

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Eliminate technology, mechanical systems 

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What are two types of construction?

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Light frame, heavy frame-multi-story etc.      

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How does BIM affect the design and construction process?

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Allow deign and construction at the same time 

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What is Project Delivery Method?

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Contractile agreement with owner, architect and contractor 

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What is the traditional project delivery method?

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Design Bid Build 

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How does using BIM affect the team working on the project?

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Allows teamwork and simultaneous impute

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What does Integrated Project Delivery Method promote?

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Collaboration 

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What is the definition of detail?

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Smaller part of the whole

Designing a part of a whole    

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What is one way of understanding architectural history?

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Through the details of its construction          

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What are the Five Point of Architecture according to Le Corbusier?

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1.     Pilotis

2.     Roof garden

3.     Free plan

4.     Horizontal windows

5.     Few façade

6.     Sun breakers

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According to Professor Scott Murray, what are two ways of thinking about architecture?

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Scale and assemble-zoom and x-ray

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What did Mies van der Rohe say about architecture and detail?

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“God is in the details” “less is more”

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What was Robert Venturi’s & Denise Scott-Brown response to Mies?

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“Less is a bore” 

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What is the most current response to Mies and Venturi?

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“Yes is more”

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What building embodies Mies van der Rohe’s “less is more” ideas?

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Farnsworth house

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Dina A. Griffin, AIA, NOMA
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Served as Architect of Record with Renzo Piano on The New Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago-Dina joined IDEA in 1998 and is President of Interactive Design

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WALTER T. BAILEY (1882-1941)    
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First licensed African-American architect in the state of Illinois Appointed as the head of the Mechanical Industries Department at the Tuskegee Institute.He designed numerous buildings on the Tuskegee Campus as well as for the Knights of Pythian

 

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Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937)    
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Worked for Frank Lloyd Wright in Wright's famous Oak Park studio. Won a contest and designed the Canberra

 

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What is Nathan Ricker most famous for?
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First UI undergrad
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What is Jeanne Gang most famous for?
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Aqua tower
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WHat architecture firm is Jeanne Gang a principal of?
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Studio gang
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What is Temple Hoyne Buell most famous for?
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First shopping mall
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What are some of the different ways to see?
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Perceive, apprehend, visualize, detect, understand
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What are filters? What are some filters we use?
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Cell phones, headphones, cars, sunglasses
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What are some ways to see the world? On what scale?
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Microscopic, human, plane etc
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What should we know before we aim to understand our environment?
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Ourselves
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Prof. Stallmeyer used what building as an example? Who is the architect?
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MG de Young Memorial Museum by Herzog and de Meuron
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What is special about the MG de Young Memorial Museum?
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Looks like the light of a tree-made of copper
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What is architecture according to Francis Ching?
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Art, science, design and the construction of buildings
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Who is the architect of ICA? Location? Client?
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Diller Scofidio and Renfro, Boston, City of Boston
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What was the theory behind ICA as stated by the architect?
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Perform as a civic building with public ad social activity as well as art
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What were the intentions and requirements of the ICA?
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Engage people in art and the neighborhood-bring people to the building
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What is the most prominent structural component of the building?
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Mega trusses allow for large gallery space
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What does the building facade conceal?
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Many layers of construction materials
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Why did the image of the building change from the drawing submissions?
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Use of technology
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Give an example of a details that the architects designed for the ICA building
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Seating in the computer lab
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What are some reasons NOT to draw?
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Dont know how, other tools. time
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What are some reasons to draw?
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Graphic communication, saves time, easy, cheap
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What is graphic communication?
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Any illustration ex: bathroom, street signs
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WHat do concept sketches and diagrams represent?
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Idea in the essence
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What is the difference between study drawings and final drawings?
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Finals have better quality and depth-less sketch like
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What graphic communication is used in architecture?
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Presentation drawing, elevation, floor plans etc.
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What are typical presentation drawings?
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Plans, sections, elevations, 3D drawings
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What do plans, sections and elevations convey?
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Organization of the building
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What do 3D drawings show?
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Relationships of elements and program in space
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What do prospective drawings allow the designer to do?
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Show a building or space as it is seen by the user
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How can perspective drawings be classified?
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One point or two
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How is a good composition visually balanced?
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With drawings, texts and textiles
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Sketching is..
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a quick idea
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Drawing is...
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more detail, value, spacial
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Rendering is...
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very realistic
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What are the three components of becoming an architect?
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Education, experience, examination
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What are Professional NAAB accredited degrees?
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Bachelor of Arch, Pre-profeessional, Undergrad in other field and Master of Arch, Doctor of Arch
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are the three main categories of student performance criteria according to NAAB 2009 Conditions for Accreditation?
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Critical thinking, integrated building practice, technical skills, knowledge, leadership
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What exam do candidate must pass to become a licensed architect?
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A.R.W arch registration exam
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What are the four steps to career development?
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Assessing, exploring, deciding, planning
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WHat does the process of career exploration include?
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Mission statement, goals, action plan
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What can you learn from the brick mason?
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Having long term goals
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What is Global Brigades?
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Targets student lead global health sustainable organization
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What are three professional social responsibility of the architect?
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Protect heath, no harm, better places
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What is the strongest housing need
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Housing as artistic, shelter
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What are 3 ways Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, OH is socially responsible in regards to the environment?
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Net zero building, emission zero, living machine for waste and water treatment
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What is BIM?
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Building info modeling
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Give and example of BIM software
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Revit, autoCAD
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What are some tools enabling architects to change the way they operate their business?
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Skype, file sharing, etc.
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Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in Spain using software from what industry?
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Aerospace engineering
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With technologies such as BIM, Rhino, Grasshopper, etc what is the greatest limit in architecture?
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The user
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Prof. Poss collaborated with his design studio students and designed a wash-pack pavilion for?
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Sustainable student farm
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What is the role/outreach of Sustainable Student Farm at the University of Illinois?
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Fresh food for kitchen and farmers market
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According to Prof. Poss what do unmet needs transfer into?
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Program
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What were some of the unmet needs for Sustainable Student Farm?
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Increasing amount of produce, logistics, expansion, organization
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What were three problems The Small Studio were presented with?
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Portable display, graphic, master plan of farm
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What are some other projects done by Small Studio and Prof. Poss?
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Virginia park pavilion, PopUpHOuse, Writing Hut
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What innovative technology did Small Studio use for the foundation of the Wash/Pack Pavilion?
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Tires with concrete
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What were the challenges and limitations for the foundation?
Definition
Can't build on agricultural land
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What is special about how the furniture is integrated in the Wash/Pack Pavilion?
Definition
It's used as support
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